Exam 2: The Body in Health and Disease

Which structure can be seen through a microscope?

The prefix re- means "again and again,backward;unable to."

A patient cannot recover from an illness that is ________.

The abbreviation for treatment is ________.

The combining form super/o- means ________.

Moving from the body toward the end of a limb (arm or leg)is moving in a proximal direction or proximally.

In the medical word skeletal,the combining form is ________.

Which syllable is the primary accented syllable in the pronunciation of the medical word viscera (vis-er-ah)?

Using the transverse plane,the upper half of the body is the inferior section and the lower half is the superior section.

Surgeons are ________ who complete additional training in surgical techniques.

The prognosis is the predicted course and outcome of a disease.

The combining form therap/o- means "________."

The combining form thorac/o- means "chest;thorax."

A physician who specializes in gastroenterology treats diseases of the brain.

The combining form physi/o- means ________.

________ diseases occur when an inherited recessive defective gene is passed to the child from a parent.

Etiology is the cause or origin of a disease.

Which body plane is also called the frontal plane?

The abbreviation PA has two definitions ________.

In the medical word hereditary,the combining form means ________.